Monthly marathon

01 June 1999 Comments Other `Monthly marathon' Photo no. 154. Third stage in eleventh `Marathon'. Identify the species. Read the rules below, then send your answer on a postcard to Monthly Marathon, Fountains, Park Lane, Blunham, Bedford MK44 3NJ, to arrive by 15th July 1999.1. O...
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Looking back

01 June 1999 Comments Other `The following notes were made... in those extensive woods which once formed part of the Forest of Feckenham, Worcestershire... At first I heard nothing more than Thrushes, Blackbirds and Nightingales, except a Nightjar... A WoodWarbler was singing amo...
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Fifty years ago

01 September 1981 Comments Other 'GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN IN INNER LONDON. On July 12th, 1931, I was sitting in Eaton Square Gardens with my wife and son and we all saw about fifteen feet away a Golden-crested Wren (Regulus r. anglorum) hopping about in the grass, very tame and easil...
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